“It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along Id never even spent time around a man. Hell, Id never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?”

“Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.”

“I just want to live my own life instead of everyone elses version of it.”

“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly re...”

“I am, as it were, the created creatinga paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day ...”

“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossro...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.”

“There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out.”

“There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.”

“I got nervous at bulls and eagles,Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f”

“If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that ...”

“Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”